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Stalin School of Falsification - Chapter 14 SVERDLOV: Introduces a motion to close the discussion, elect a committee and give the floor to the reporters for summaries. VOITINSKY: Speaks against the motion, inasmuch as he fears that the same thing will happen as with the resolution on war. Sverdlov's motion is carried. The discussion is closed. The reporter and co-reporter are given the floor to sun up. VOITINSKY: Comrades have said that in my resolution I paid too much attention to the political side of the Govern ment's activity and missed the social side. But those who argued against me overlook that at the present moment special legislation is being energetically introduced not in the shape of legal enactments but in the shape of agreements with the Soviet and that here the Government under our pressure is doing not what it would have liked to do, and that here, too, it is putting our program into effect. A vote of confi dence [from the party] cannot be given, but support to it can be shown. We must not forget that on various questions the Government will be unable to cope with a whole number of tasks facing it. A defeat on the food supply question would be not only a defeat for the Government but also a defeat for us, because we, too, will be unable to cope with the disruption of the transport system. We need the Government as a technical clerk. We must prepare the apparatus; by entering into all the organs, into all the departments. If Petrograd or the Army are left without bread, the indigna tion will be directed not against the Provisional Government but against us. Without our support the Government will be unable to cope with a number of technical tasks. If you say that you will support certain measures -- then you must express this in the resolution. You must point out that the moment that the Provisional Government steps from under our control and takes counter-revolutionary steps, we will go head on against it. But when it fulfills our program, we sup port it. We will come out against it because it betrays the revolution. The people must know that we are revolution ary not for the sake of revolution, that we have our own program. . STALIN: I will speak on the first point which has aroused disagreement. Up to now the revolutionary initiative has come from the Soviet. The Soviet of Workers' Deputies has issued declarations, broached issues and made threats, while the Provisional Government has balked, struggled only finally to agree. In such a situation can one speak of supporting such a Government? One can rather speak of the Government supporting us. It is not logical to speak of the support of the Provisional Government, on the contrary, it is more proper to speak of the Government not hindering us from putting our program into effect. The speaker proposes that a resolution which does not sup port the Provisional Government be accepted as a basis. The Government is organizing the army, it is arousing the hostil ity of the soldiers against the workers, and leaning on the strength of Anglo-French capitalism, it is already Organizing the counter-revolution. VOITINSKY: Speaks in favor of theses being prepared for the Committee. Is it not necessary to point out in the resolu tion that we give support to steps directed toward the development of the revolution? (For-38; against-26.) Election of a committee to draft the resolution. http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937-st2/sf14.htm (14 of 25) [06/06/2002 15:07:27]
Stalin School of Falsification - Chapter 14 The following elected: Voitinsky, Miliutin, Stalin, Sammer, Sevruk, Krestinsky, Kamenev, Eliava, Teodorovich. Chairman: Nogin. Secretarie8: Comrades Boki and Drabkina. *** SESSION OF MARCH 30 KAMENEV: Reports that he has entered into negotiations with the internationalist S.R.'s and Mensheviks. Inasmuch as it is clear that an absolutely inacceptable resolution of the Executive Committee [of the Soviets] will be passed, it is necessary to counterpose to it a joint resolution of the inter nationalists. The S.R.'s (22) are a national minority. They will not vote against the resolution of the Bolsheviks and will withdraw their resolution. The Mensheviks are seeking to introduce a single resolution and are for uniting on a joint resolution. Should factional discipline be imposed to compel the minority to submit to the majority, the internationalists will come out in favor of our resolution. The p!an of action is as follows: If we do not obtain a majority, then at least to constitute a compact international ist minority. And to vote against the resolution of the Exec utive Committee. After the adoption of the resolution of the Executive Committee, to introduce the following four amendments: 1) The Executive Committee demands of the Provisional Government as its next step that it proclaim openly to the whole world the readiness of the peoples of emancipated Russia to enter into peace negotiations on the basis of the right of all nations to self-determination without annexations and contributions. 2) The Conference, rejecting all hopes in the secret diplo matic game of the imperialist governments that plunged the world into war, proclaims that the Only ally of revolutionary Russia in her struggle for the liquidation of the imperialist war is the international proletariat. 3) Demands from the Provisional Government that it break with secret diplomacy and make public the treaties of Czarism, concluded behind the back of the people. 4) Rejects the principle of class peace, advantageous Only to the bourgeoisie and the landlords who make profits out of the war. The amendments are intended not for the purpose of improving the resolution but to demonstrate a point of view. In Tseretelli's resolution there is no mention of peace, hence insertion: 1) the Conference demands from the European governments the open assumption of peace negotiations; 2) makes no mention of the only ally in the struggle for peace -- the international proletariat; 3) to insert: "Demands a break with secret diplomacy"; 4) to add at the end -- "Rejects. . . VOITINSKY: Considers that the amendments are unques tionably acceptable but proposes that they he first intro duced in the Executive Committee, and that all measures be taken to have them accepted there. All the comrades who are in agreement with it should vote for the resolution of comrade Kamenev. KRASSIKOV: The gist of the matter is not in the amend ments and not in a demonstrative presentation http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937-st2/sf14.htm (15 of 25) [06/06/2002 15:07:27]
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